Clinton Taps Podesta
As Next Chief of Staff

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated Oct. 21, 1998 1:12 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton promoted longtime aide and trouble-shooter John Podesta as his fourth chief of staff, the top White House job, now that Erskine Bowles is returning this month to North Carolina and a possible political career of his own.

Mr. Podesta, 49 years old, now one of two deputy chiefs of staff, has most recently represented Mr. Clinton's interests both in the preliminary impeachment proceedings on Capitol Hill,...